Anna Frederika (Freda) Bage (11 April 1883 – 23 October 1970) was an Australian biologist, university professor and principal and women's activist. Freda was born in 1883 and studied at Oxford High School for girls and Fairlight School. In 1907, Freda received her Masters of Science from the University of Melbourne and began an extensive career. Freda worked as a junior demonstrator in Biology and in 1908 won the King's College scholarship and in 1909 travelled to London working under Arthur Dendy which led Freda receiving a fellowship by the Linnean Society in 1910–11. Freda returned to the University of Melbourne where she worked as a senior demonstrator and in 1913 she was offered a job at the University of Queensland where she became a biology lecturer. On 8 February 1914 Freda became